Thursday, May 19, 2016

Will Consume Them - Jeremiah 14:11-12

Jeremiah 14:11-12 ESV

The Lord said to me: “Do not pray for the welfare of this people. Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, and though they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”

The book of Revelation closes the story begun in Genesis of a people chosen to carry the light of God into the world. They struggle with this burden, but God uses them to bring His light into the world, a great light which is Jesus Christ. He remains in the world as the body of Christ, His Church. 

From Chapter four onwards in Revelation the focus is on Israel and the earth dwellers, the great tribulation which ends the wrath of God. 

Jeremiah speaks about the horsemen of judgement that will ride against Israel until their punishment for disobedience is complete. The sword, famine, and pestilence are mentioned in a number of times as the manifestations of God's wrath, and is the sign to us of the time of Jacob's troubles and the conclusion of God's plan for the earth. 

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